2012/11/21 Pavel Shilovsky <[email protected]>: > Network filesystems CIFS, SMB2.0, SMB3.0 and NFSv4 have such flags - this > change can benefit cifs and nfs modules. While this change is ok for network > filesystems, itsn't not targeted for local filesystems due security problems > (e.g. when a user process can deny root to delete a file). > > Share flags are used by Windows applications and WINE have to deal with them > too. While WINE can process open share flags itself on local filesystems, it > can do it if a file stored on netowork share and is used by several clients. > This patchset makes it possible. Sorry for the typo, should be: "While WINE can..., it can _not_ do it if a file is stored on a network share and used by several clients."
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